Achenblog: July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005

From Tom Shroder: Consider the coincidence. Let's define coincidence as a confluence of events without known connection that nonetheless seem to be connected. My Dumb Question is, how unlikely does a coincidence need to be before...

Tom is going to contribute another dumb question in a minute, even as I try to write a column about blogging (and note how, even by mentioning that, I'm blogging about columnizing), but in the meantime I noticed...

Like all Americans I've been studying the high resolution images of the fuel tank as it separated from the orbiter. Incredibly, the Space Age is on the verge of coming to a halt because we can't keep insulating...

This is Sydney, Joel's editor. I need your help. Joel is using this blog to avoid doing what he's really being paid to do here -- write for the Magazine. I don't know this for sure, but I just can't...

I don't blog anymore. I read. That's what I'm about. I get up and hit the books. I absorb verbiage rather than spew it. There is nothing left to write: All the good sentences have already been written....

Somewhere along the line the Valerie Plame leak probe became a daily story, something in which every incremental development -- even a new leak from another mysterious source "with close knowledge of the thinking of investigators," and so...